As you know RSS Feed helps us to stay updated with the latest news, blog posts, and latest social media posts. With this information, you can use it for your personal or business growth. You can discover new job posts too from the job websites. How do we subscribe to this RSS Feed? There are … Read more
Background Part 2 of this series centers around running more complex MySQL queries. This skill is a must-have if you are interested in pursuing a career as a Data Scientist. After completing Part 1 of this series, you should be comfortable: Installing Libraries Downloading and saving a CSV file from the web. Creating a Pandas … Read more
Syntax requests.get(url, args) You can replace args with one or more of the following arguments, comma-separated: Parameter Description url Required The URL of the request params Optional Send data using a URL query string. Dictionary, list of tuples, or bytes. allow_redirects Optional By default, True: allowing redirects. If False, the code prevents redirection to another … Read more
This is the first part of a 3-part series on the Python request library: Python Requests Library – Your First HTTP Request in Python Python Requests Library – Understanding requests.get() Parameters Python Requests Library – Exception Handling & Advanced request.get() Parameters Syntax Background & Preparation The Requests library has several methods for GET. Part 1 … Read more
This is the first part of a 3-part series on the Python request library: Python Requests Library – Your First HTTP Request in Python Python Requests Library – Understanding requests.get() Parameters Python Requests Library – Exception Handling & Advanced request.get() Parameters Syntax requests.nameofmethod(parameters) Background and Preparation The Requests library has several options for GET. Part … Read more
This is the first part of a 3-part series on the Python request library: Python Requests Library – Your First HTTP Request in Python Python Requests Library – Understanding requests.get() Parameters Python Requests Library – Exception Handling & Advanced request.get() Parameters Syntax Background There are many libraries around that make HTTP requests. However, the requests … Read more
Preparation This article assumes you have the following libraries installed: Requests Beautifulsoup and a basic understanding of: HTML CSS Python Add the following code to the top of each code snippet. This snippet will allow the code in this article to run error-free. Beautifulsoup Find by ID If the HTML code contains one or more … Read more
In the time of web scraping or with the purpose of automation, we require to get the text from the HTML element of the page. Selenium allows us to do this with a special “.text()” method. This method helps us bringing out the text that is visible in the HTML content. Today we will dive … Read more
Sometimes when we try to find a WebElement from the HTML code by using the find method of selenium, we might see a NoSuchElementException or Unable to locate element error on the terminal. But it is crystal clear from the HTML code that the element is present on that page. So, why does that happen? … Read more
If we want to move down to a page or want to search for something on a page that is not in view, we use scrolling to reach there. Is it possible to scroll a page automatically with selenium? Selenium‘s main feature does not have an option for scrolling. But we can achieve it with … Read more
MySQLdb is an interface to an existing MySQL database server for Python. Problem Formulation: Given a PyCharm project. How to install MySQL in your project within a virtual environment or globally? Here’s a solution that always works: Open File > Settings > Project from the PyCharm menu. Select your current project. Click the Python Interpreter … Read more
When it comes to developing web applications in Python there are lots of frameworks. Some examples are Pyramid, Web2Py, Bottle or CherryPy, among others. However, the two most popular ones are Flask and Django. We can confirm this fact by having a look at the most starred Python libraries in GitHub: As we will see … Read more